Once upon a time there were three women

They will dictate your destiny. The first woman was killed by you, but not really dead. The second woman you will save, and she will die for you. The third woman will kill you, but she will save many people in the future. This is the prophecy in a Korean TV show that is very popular around Asia.
The first woman is the Queen. Her death is brought upon by the King by poisoning. The soldier leaves the King's city to escape detection after fourteen years of work. In this period of time, he is too afraid to meet any woman.
A young woman from the King's kitchen sees her colleague giving the Queen mother something that she cannot eat. She is taken away into the forest to be killed. However, her best friend saves her by giving her mung bean soup.
The soldier saves the woman beside the river. His fate catches up with him then. This woman follows him to the countryside and they both hide from the prosecution of the King.
A long happy time passes as the young King takes over from the old, however, he is very evil and prosecutes his officials and subjects. He catches the people who poisoned his mother and tortured them until they die.
A young girl, the main character in this program, tells the crowd that her father was a soldier in court. He is taken away and killed, fulfilling the prophecy about the three women in his life.
The kid is taken in by a strict country wife in King's city. Her god-father makes nutritious food for the King and takes wine into the palace.
She cannot forget what her mother told her before her death. She has to become the King's head chef in the palace. With other young girls, she is selected to become the new apprentice in the King's kitchen.
She tries to find her mother's cooking menu the first night she enters the palace. However, she drops King's night time snack so her mother's best friend, a deputy chef, has to cook ginger and lotus root from scratch and create a delicious snack for the King.
The king loves it. They are saved, but the kid has to take punishment from then on. She cannot sit with the other girls in class and she has to sweep the yard.
However, she learns from the teacher outside when she is doing all the cleaning work.
The teacher orders her to hold a copper bowl full of water until the exam finish for the other girls so she can take the exam. No one believes she can do it, but she passes the exam with flying colors.
She starts to wash dishes when the other girls are preparing the ingredients. She is sleeping with her mother's old friend, who is a great cook and a nice teacher. She wants the young girl to bring her water everyday.
The weather is not so well. It starts to rain muddy water that pollute the wells and river. Her mother taught her to boil the water to wash the dishes because otherwise the dirty water will contaminate the food. The kitchens for the prince and the Queen mother have contaminated food so they cannot be eaten. From then on, the deputy chefs look at this young girl with newfound love.
The girls have to compete with an older girl who is very good at cooking. They put the pine seed on the pine needle. This tests the girl's hand co-ordination and feeling. The older girl is the best, but she wants to let the heroine go home to see her family. She begs her caretaker to let her best friend, whose mother is sick, to go on leave from the palace.
This is a great TV program. I think I am hooked on as well. The kid is so cute and clever. The internal fight in the palace is also crazy and thrilling. Very well shot and set up TV program.
Dad is coming back to New Zealand this morning. I will go home to eat lunch with him today and say hello to him. Fuzzy is also coming home to live. I can't wait until mid-day! ^_^